San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-12-10
STAGE WHISPERS.
Topics of Interest About the DoInRs
OF the Profession.

7 Ahb
Last Sunday night opened up a successful
| theatrical week in San Antonio, although Il
was the end OF the engagement of the Girls
meT-Davies company, which was so well re
! good companies at the Grand opera house the
| entire week, and the Held by the Enemy
company and Katie Putnam's company have
also played to nne business. Next week
promises just as much, the opening taking
place Monday night with the reproduction OF
Schnaith and Barbour's opera comique "Merry
War" at the Grand. Tuesday Jas. O'Neill win
make a one nights stand with his Monte
CristO," on his way to California. He is dated
in San Francisco on Christmas week. After
O'Neill Sol Smith Russell appears, Thursday
MINISTRIES Friday and Saturday, and they in
turn by the charming and popular favoTite,
Miss Efiie Elsller. for two nights.
LENA, THE MAD-cAP.
Last night Katie Putnam appeared in this
play, which Is her own. She Is versatile, any
now, but as Lena, she Is charmingly so. and
takes the part with childish abandon that is
so natural that her audience, while being
completely carried away with her, is also con-
vulsed from the rise to the drop of the cur
tain-at first convused with laughter at her
comical speeches, then convulsed with tears
by her pathOs. Far from being old or stale, as
one local critic AYERS, she is young and fresh
in the piece and has many more years of sue
cess before she is laid on the shelf. Her COM
pany also appeared to better advantage last
night than did they In "Erma, the Elf.'
IRISH ARIsToCRACY.
This funniest OF funny plays has been GO
ing lively all the week at the Fashion theatre.
MIR. Burke as "Mulcahey' has created YER
sion of the part peculiar to himself. The bal
ance of the company acquitted themselves
well and showed they had been thoroughly
rehearsed. Next week another fine bill of at
fractions will be presented.
GOSSIP.
The Carleton Opera company are playing
for the week in New Orleans, in "Nanon,"
'Ermiuip'' and tMprry War Thpy will "a
here during Christmas week. Abbott will fol-
low in January.
Modjeska is playing next week in New Or
leans.
Booth Il Barrett's next season. 1883, opens
at Chicago opera house, in October.
Kate ClaXtOn has bought two new plays for
next season, THE .POintsman" and World
against Her"
1t was Jenny Lind who took Adelaide Phil
lips out of the ballet and aided to make her a
singer. Miss Phillips first appearance was in
Paris, where she was billed as Mile. FIllippi,
and where she sang the part of the gypsy
in ''Trovatore."
Carrie Swain is now playing in Australia.
The agent of Edwin Booth and Lawrence
Barrett says that they have been offered the
management of theatre in New York City,
and have the matter under serious considera-
ton. A theatre in a desirable location, or
new one built for them, devoted to general
productions and revlyals, with a selected
stock company, would probably become one
or the famous houses OF the world.
Mr.. Andy GlassfOrd, who takes the role of
"Blufklns" in the production of "Erma. the
Elf" by the Katie Putnam company, met Mr..
Frank Donaldson and wife yesterday and
found in them old friends of years gone by,
when the latter were in the "show" business.
Mr.. GlassfOrd is gentleman of 50 years of
age though he does not appear to be that old
He has four daughters and four sons, two of
whom are in the profession, and they in turn
have children in the profession, making Mr..
GlassfOrd a grandfather and he expects soon
to become great-grandfather. One of his
sons, Walter Adrian GlassfOrd, was with
Louise Balfe in the opening of the season in
this city. He appeared on the bills as Walter
Adrian. Mrs. Donaldson knew Mr.. and Mrs.
GlassfOrd nearly 40 years ago. She was then
Miss Jennie Hughes, was 10 years of age and
was playing leading sOubrette parts. She was
married to her first husband, W. p. Smith,
comedian, in Mr.. Glassfords house in
Memphis, in 1850 The scene between these
old people yesterday after such a long alb
sence was quite affecting, and pleasant hour
was spent talking over old time plays and
people of the profession. Mr.. GlassfOrd is
able to retire from the profession but says he
cannot; that he is welded to 1t and will die
in the business as he has lived. He owns a
fine country residence with a large farm one
and a half miles from Railway, New Jersey,
and annually he spends his summers there.
Minnie Hauk has quit Mapleson's opera
company and goes to Russia.
L6tts proposes to fund a children's asylum
when she retires.